Crowd vs Quantity - What's the difference?
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To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
* Addison:
* Macaulay:
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
* Shakespeare
To fill by pressing or thronging together.
* Prescott
To push, to press, to shove.
* 2006 , Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style (ISBN 0399532463), page 73:
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds , and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
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(lb) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
* (1809-1892)
*:To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
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(obsolete) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
* Ben Jonson
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
* 1819': wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, '''crowds , and rotes. — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
* 1684': That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with ' crowds and bases — Samuel Butler, "Hudibras"
A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.
An indefinite amount of something.
A specific measured amount.
A considerable measure or amount.
(metrology) Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference.
(mathematics) Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.
* 2006 , Jerome E. Kaufmann and Karen Schwitters, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: A Combined Approach ,
* 2005 , R. Mark Sirkin, Statistics For The Social Sciences ,
* 1985 , Serge Lang, Math!: Encounters with High School Students ,
Crowd is a related term of quantity.
As nouns the difference between crowd and quantity
is that crowd is a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order or crowd can be (obsolete) a crwth, an ancient celtic plucked string instrument while quantity is a fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.As a verb crowd
is to press forward; to advance by pushing or crowd can be (obsolete|intransitive) to play on a crowd; to fiddle.crowd
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kruien.Verb
(en verb)- The man crowded into the packed room.
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- The whole company crowded about the fire.
- Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- Crowd us and crush us.
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
- tried to crowd her off the sidewalk
- Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
Derived terms
* crowd control * crowd manipulation * crowd out * crowd psychology * crowd sailNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (group of things) aggregation, cluster, group, mass * (group of people) audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng * (the "lower orders" of people) everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashedDerived terms
* crowd catch * crowd-pleaser * crowd-puller * work the crowdEtymology 2
Celtic, from Welsh crwth.Noun
(en noun)- A lackey that can warble upon a crowd a little.
References
(Webster 1913)Anagrams
*quantity
English
(wikipedia quantity)Noun
(quantities)- You have to choose between quantity and quality.
- Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity''' in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small '''quantity .
- Olive oil can be used practically in any quantity .
- This bag would normally costs $497.50 for a quantity of 250, at a price of $1.99 per piece.
- Generally it should not be used in a quantity larger than 15 percent.
- The Boeing P-26A was the first all-metal monoplane fighter produced in quantity for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
- x plus ''y'' quantity squared equals ''x'' squared plus ''2xy'' plus ''y'' squared .
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- For problems 58-67, translate each word phrase into an algebraic expression.
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- 65. x plus 9, the quantity squared
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- The second, , read "summation of x, quantity squared," tells us to first add up all the xs to get and then square to get .
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- ANN. quantity cubed.
- SERGE LANG. That's right, .